From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 08:06:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24AD537B401 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 08:06:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tw.com (w166.z064220167.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.220.167.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FCC143FD7 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 08:06:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wadlow@tw.com) Received: from localhost (wadlow@localhost) by tw.com (8.12.9/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3CF6RJN027295 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 08:06:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wadlow@tw.com) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 08:06:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Wadlow To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Applixware Office X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:06:18 -0000 I'm a long time user of Applixware under FreeBSD. The last version I was able to get was the 5.0 version which came from the FreeBSD Desktop Edition distribution, which shipped with FreeBSD 4.3. That was some time ago, and a recent check shows that it is still the same. I've gotten the 5.0 binaries to run under 4.5, but there was some minor weirdness required. They don't trivially run under 4.7 and it is clear that the weirdness needed is increasing as OS and binaries drift further apart. That is a curve that will one day become too steep to play on. I've considered switching to something like OpenOffice.org, but I've got a lot of Applixware stuff around, and it is considerably more lightweight than OO. At the very least it would be helpful to run them side by side on the same machine for a while to help convert things. So my question is this: What is the status of Applixware with regards to FreeBSD? The original company appears to be out of business or vastly changed. I believe that the Desktop Edition version was generated after the company went away. Does somebody in the FreeBSD world have source? Is that source available generally? If not generally, is it being maintained? If not, is it in search of a maintainer? Thanks, --Tom